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...will also take its lumps. The report faults the agency for failing to cultivate human sources within al-Qaeda?s central command inside Afghanistan. CIA officials concede they did not penetrate leader Osama bin Laden?s inner circle, where knowledge of the 9/11 plot was confined. But they insist that they had many well-placed midlevel sources. That intelligence, they say, enabled their paramilitary units to search out and destroy al-Qaeda camps and safe houses once President Bush ordered the invasion of Afghanistan...
...July 1 mass march, Hong Kong has fundamentally changed. The protests of recent weeks have shown that a remarkably wide spectrum of Hong Kongers do not see the territory as just an "economic city"?as many officials (both mainland and local) and some tycoons in Hong Kong still insist it is, or should be. There's been a politicization of the hitherto apolitical middle and professional classes. Hong Kongers have signaled clearly that they regard the territory not only as a place to make money and then split for gentler political climes but as a permanent home for themselves, where...
...Blair's government is the source of the claim about Iraqi uranium purchases that continues to dog the Bush Administration. The prime minister continues to insist, despite Washington's retraction, that the allegation is correct. But while the Niger yellowcake story is at the center of a growing Washington brawl over who knew what when, they're something of a minor footnote in Blair's domestic political crisis. The British leader arrived to receive Washington's plaudits at a moment when his standing among his own people has reached an all-time low - and for the same reason that Washington...
...understand why the United States government would insist that I be absent before its soldiers arrive." CHARLES TAYLOR, president of Liberia, claiming he won't leave his country until peacekeepers intervene to prevent violence between warring factions; President Bush has asserted that Taylor's departure would be a prerequisite for U.S. troop deployment...
...Guantánamo, but given the protection of U.S. courts. "Guantánamo is bad enough," says a U.K. official, "but the worst thing is that we fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and suffered casualties, and in the aftermath its citizens are treated differently." U.S. officials insist the tribunals are much better than the European perception. "There will be a presumption of innocence, a requirement of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and no adverse inference if a defendant decides to remain silent," says Major John Smith, an attorney in the Office of Military Commissions. If the death...